Portal:Vital articles

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Vital articles Portal

Vital articles are lists of subjects for which the English Wikipedia should have corresponding featured-class articles. They serve as centralized watchlists to track the quality status of Wikipedia's most important articles and to give editors guidance on which articles to prioritize for improvement. The most important articles are in Level 1.

This portal is tailored to the English-language Wikipedia. There is also a list of one thousand articles considered vital to Wikipedias of all languages, as well as Vital Article lists tailored to different Wikipedia languages accessible via the languages sidebar.


Level 1 Vital article


Science is a rigorous, systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the world. Modern science is typically divided into three major branches: the natural sciences (e.g., physics, chemistry, and biology), which study the physical world; the social sciences (e.g., economics, psychology, and sociology), which study individuals and societies; and the formal sciences (e.g., logic, mathematics, and theoretical computer science), which study formal systems, governed by axioms and rules. There is disagreement whether the formal sciences are science disciplines, as they do not rely on empirical evidence. Applied sciences are disciplines that use scientific knowledge for practical purposes, such as in engineering and medicine. (Full article...)


Get involved

For editor resources and to collaborate with other editors on improving Wikipedia's Vital Articles, visit WikiProject Vital Articles.

  • Finish building out Vital article Level 5 list
  • Make it easier for readers to access the list (better separate reader-focused and editor-focused pages)
  • Integrate random vital article tool somewhere (main page? sidebar?) for readers
  • Collaborate with other WikiProjects to focus attention on poor-quality high-level articles
  • Better integrate VA with the project-specific importance lists
  • Develop tools for helping identify VA candidates (one attempt: most-viewed unlisted articles)
  • clean-up listing for Vital_Articlesthe tool's wiki page

Featured article

Featured articles in Vital articles.

Periodic table of the chemical elements showing the most or more commonly named sets of elements (in periodic tables), and a traditional dividing line between metals and nonmetals. The f-block actually fits between groups 2 and 3; it is usually shown at the foot of the table to save horizontal space.
The periodic table, also known as the periodic table of the elements, is an ordered arrangement of the chemical elements into rows ("periods") and columns ("groups"). It is an icon of chemistry and is widely used in physics and other sciences. It is a depiction of the periodic law, which states that when the elements are arranged in order of their atomic numbers an approximate recurrence of their properties is evident. The table is divided into four roughly rectangular areas called blocks. Elements in the same group tend to show similar chemical characteristics. (Full article...)

Top 10 WikiProject Vital articles – Popular articles of the month

A selection of most-visited articles from the list of popular pages


CategoriesCategories

Select [►] to view subcategories.

Featured pictures

Featured pictures in Vital articles.

Main articles

Discover Wikipedia using portals

Purge server cache